“Suspicious object hitting the shore”
Around 8:45 am on Tuesday morning, a resident of Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture called the police and reported that they had found a “suspicious object stranded” on Enshyuhama Beach. knowledgeable Daiichi TV channel.
After the woman’s search, the prefectural police began cordoning off the “iron ball-shaped object” with a diameter of about 1.5 meters, and traffic in the area was tightly regulated, according to the TV channel.
Now the suspicious object is controlled by experts. Police sent the photos to Japan Self-Defense Force and Coast Guard experts.
How reported The area around the unusual find was closed “due to the possibility of an explosion,” the newspaper Nishinippon Shimbun reported.
Photographs published in Japanese media show that the ball has a smooth beige surface with brown spots, possibly due to rust. On both sides there are protrusions – perforated “ears”.
Representatives of the Omaezaki branch of the Japanese Coast Guard told RIA Novosti that they do not yet know exactly what the metal ball was discovered.
“We don’t know yet what kind of object it is,” the ministry said.
Soon Daiichi TV knowledgeableHe said the inside of the balloon was “empty and not in danger of bursting”, so police were “removing restrictions around the area”.
february balls
Since the beginning of February, several spherical objects of unknown purpose have been found in the world. On February 4, the US military shot down a Chinese “blimp” on the orders of President Joe Biden off the coast of South Carolina.
“The balloon was first spotted in the sky over Montana earlier this week and passed through the middle of the country, following the weather, before leaving the continental United States on Saturday,” CNN reported.
According to the channel, senior US military officials advised “not to drop the balloon over the US continent” because of the risk of debris falling into a densely populated area. At the same time, the Biden administration was confident that the Chinese bubble was “trying to control sensitive military installations” of the United States.
However, China has expressed “strong discontent and protest” over the lowering of the bubble by the Americans. The PRC accused the US of “overreaction” and “serious violation of international practice”. Beijing assured that the balloon was “designed for civilian use and ended up in the United States due to force majeure – it was an accident”.
In the following days, the Americans shot down several unidentified flying objects over Alaska, Canada, and Lake Huron (on the US-Canada border).
On February 10, US National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said at a briefing that the US military had detected a balloon in the airspace over Alaska and shot it down.
He explained that the falling balloon was at an altitude of 12,000 meters and was smaller in size than the Chinese balloon that had been dropped before – the object’s size was “about the size of a small car”.
On February 11, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Canadian and US military had hit an unidentified object in the northwestern part of the country.
“I have ordered the downing of an unidentified object in violation of Canadian airspace. NORAD shot down an object over the Yukon. Canadian and American aircraft were lifted into the air and an American F-22 successfully fired at the object,” he wrote on Twitter.
On February 12, the Pentagon said US military warplanes had shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron on the US-Canada border. Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said an American F-16 fighter jet shot down the object at 14:42 local time on the orders of President Joe Biden.
General Glen Vanherke, head of the Joint Command for Aerospace Defense of the North American continent, said that the unidentified objects dropped did not exclude the extraterrestrial origin. The US military will try to restore the objects to understand what they are.